This is the 13th episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded April 30, 2010. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston and Scott Wright. Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:

New Facebook Changes – Social Graph, Social Plugins and Instant Personalization. Here are twoarticles to read on the new changes. Want to know more about the new Graph API? Read Facebook’s documentation.

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The Facebook Privacy & Security Guide has been updated to version 2.1 to reflect recent changes that Facebook has made. Updates to the guide include minor changes to the privacy navigation structure and details on the new “Instant Personalization” privacy setting. Also, I included information on Facebook Ads. Please print it out for your own use or share with friends and family! Questions and comments can be posted here or sent to feedback[aT]socialmediasecurity.com.

This is the 11th episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded March 15, 2010. Sorry for the delay on releasing this! We should be back on our biweekly schedule soon. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston and Scott Wright. Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:

Tom and Scott discuss some of the privacy and security issues with Geolocation services.

Geostalking shows the privacy issues with location based social networks. You might be setting yourself up for a prank call.

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This is the 8th episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded January 8, 2010. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston, Kevin Johnson and Scott Wright. Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:

Clearing up questions about what Facebook Applications can access in your profile
** An application has access to your PAI and anything visible to “Everyone” as soon as you stop by – no authorization necessary.
“When you visit a Facebook-enhanced application or website, it may access any information you have made visible to Everyone (Edit Profile Privacy) as well as your publicly available information. This includes your Name, Profile Picture, Gender, Current City, Networks, Friend List, and Pages. The application will request your permission to access any additional information it needs”

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This is the 7th episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded December 21, 2009. This episode was hosted by Scott Wright and Tom Eston. Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:

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I recently co-authored an article with Jennifer Leggio from ZDNet on the Fifteen significant social media & security events of 2009. Be sure to check it out as there were *many* high profile attacks on social networks and their users this year. The article also provides a preview of what we might see in 2010. Thanks again to Jennifer for putting this article together!

The video clocks in at about 18 minutes. I also included information about email/text alerts, how applications work, Facebook Ads, and how to hide your friends list from public searches. Stay tuned for other guides and videos for MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn.

I have updated and released version 2.0 of the popular Facebook Privacy & Security Guide. Version 2.0 reflects the recent changes that Facebook made to it’s privacy settings. In addition, I added a new section titled “Blocking and Creating Friend Lists” and expanded on how your Name, Profile Picture, Gender, Current City, Networks, Friend List, and Pages are now publicly available information.

Can you remove public access to your friend list?
One tip I didn’t have room for in the guide around these new changes is the following. You can remove the ability for your “Friend List” to be viewed in public searches by selecting the Edit “pencil” in the Friends box on your profile page and unchecking the box. Here is a screen shot of this. Unfortunately, this control is all or nothing but the good news is your Friends can still see your friends list. You may also want review your application settings so application “boxes” are not showing on your public profile as well. More information can be found on Facebook’s blog post about these issues (hat tip to @mubix for pointing this out).

Like before please send any feedback on the guide to feedback[ aT ]socialmediasecurity.com. The companion video is being worked and should be up shortly as well.